I'm calling foul. How are you connecting a thunderbolt 3 6k display to an external graphics card like the 5700XT/Sonnet enclosure without a TB3 input port? The Blackmagic eGPU's offered by Apple are the only units with a TB3 input as I understand.
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1. Moshi makes a bidirectional tb3 <-> DisplayPort cable, which supports 5k/60Hz. The dp goes into the 5700xt output on the egpu, the tb3 goes into the display. Tested to work with my TB3-only LG Ultrafine 5K. You lose webcam/audio, though.
2. Also, there’s a dual-card Akitio Node Duo eGPU box where you could in theory install a gpu and a Titan Ridge card getting a TB3 output, but it’s too small to fit a Nitro+ 5700XT (I understand the post mention a Sonnet egfx box, anyway).
3. I read somewhere that there’s a Huawei (or Xiaomi?) VR cable that will connect two dp outputs to a USB-C display, but I never got around to testing that.
That’s as far as I know is the only way that could be done, outside of getting the ridiculously overpriced Blackmagic card like you mentioned.
PS As a sidenote, all that worked macside only, I could only get the XT to be recognized by Windows once. Code 12 all the way, despite trying pretty much every trick in the egpu.io book. RX580 works fine.
Does that cable for sure work?!? Don’t care about the cam etc. It would solve all of my worldly problems and I’ll buy one ASAP. I have the original Ultrafine 5k which I understand is TB3 only, I understand the re-released Ultrafine supports DP over USB-C
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Yes, the revision you are using supports USB-C over DisplayPort (alt mode). The original version (2016-2019) is Thunderbolt 3 only, or so I believe.
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Hey @Aus-Rotten88
I just got my new 16" i9 2,3ghz with 32gigs and 2TB with the 5600m.
I'am really disappointed of the mashine because I'am not nearly getting these results under windows.
When I compare benchmarks of youtubers in MacOS everything seems to be ok but under bootcamp the macbook is absolutly not getting close to your results.
Did you experience anything similar?
I wrote a message to the support of iStat Menus, and they send a link to the beta version for the 5600M MacBook Pro:
For anyone with throttling/downclocking issues, no matter if you have a 5300M or 5500M or 5600M(Yes the 5600M throttles as well), check out this post. He has helped many people with great success and this is probably the only reliable solution to this issue. I believe that the reason some people don’t experience throttling issues while others do, despite having the same spec, is the difference in their ambient room temperature(which is also the intake air temperature). It’s clear that VRM overheating is the root cause of every performance issue and VRM temperature is largely affected by the room temperature. Apple has no cooling whatsoever for the VRMs hence putting thermal pads on the VRMs to increase heat transfer will significantly improve sustained performance. The dependence on room temperature is also the reason that even this solution might not work if you live in an extremely hot environment. The only other possible solution will be to somehow hack into the firmware and mess with the voltage or throttling settings(There’s definitely no way to undervolt the CPU but some has tried to use morepowertool to tweak GPU frequency and voltage settings. I personally have not tried this approach and people have mixed result with it so it’s not as reliable as the VRM cooling solution. Also, to my understanding hacking the firmware involves hacking the T2 chip which is quite secure).
I found this to be true! I had a failure in my air condition and low and behold, I saw all of the hell people reported here. It's very true. I was in good standing before because I keep it nice and cool in the room.
Something to keep in mind for sure.
Something to keep in mind for sure.
It should be comparable to gaming on an XPS 15 or a Surface Book 2 or 3. From the standpoint of gaming, the 15"/16" MacBook Pros are not as powerful as dedicated gaming/performance/engineering laptops (primarily due to being thin). But if you either game casually or with older titles, performance should be decent enough. You're probably going to be doing most of your gaming in Boot Camp as the 16" MacBook Pro will only run Catalina or newer (and many games did not survive the removal of 32-bit app support in Catalina).
Not too long ago I noticed that the owner of bootcampdrivers.com updated his unofficial AMD drivers with the August Adrenalin package. So I went ahead and installed them to see if games ran any better - I had been stuck with the January Red drivers as they offered the best compatibility.
The good news is that the August drivers ran every game I threw at them, including Control, Outer Worlds, Fallout 4 and a few others that had given me the black screen of death.
The bad news is that I had to use a particularly screwy install procedure. IIRC, it went like this:
===DOUBLE CHECK FORUM POSTS ON BOOTCAMPDRIVERS.COM BEFORE TRYING THIS===
1) Install or upgrade to Windows 10 ver. 2004.
2) Install official November 2019 Apple/AMD Bootcamp drivers. Reboot.
3) Boot into Bootcamp w/ safe mode and run DDU 3x. Reboot
4) Install January 2020 "Blue" drivers from bootcampdrives.com. DO NOT REBOOT.
5) Install the August 2020 "Red" drivers from within Device Manager. DO NOT REBOOT.
6) Run the August 2020 "Red" installer, making sure that the Factory Install/Reset is NOT selected.
Then you should be ready to go. These August drivers seem to have much fewer problems switching resolutions, resulting in fewer "black screens of death." I've still seen some odd glitches (Fallout 4 UI not restoring properly after option-tabbing to the desktop, for example.) so there may still be a few issues.
The good news is that the August drivers ran every game I threw at them, including Control, Outer Worlds, Fallout 4 and a few others that had given me the black screen of death.
The bad news is that I had to use a particularly screwy install procedure. IIRC, it went like this:
===DOUBLE CHECK FORUM POSTS ON BOOTCAMPDRIVERS.COM BEFORE TRYING THIS===
1) Install or upgrade to Windows 10 ver. 2004.
2) Install official November 2019 Apple/AMD Bootcamp drivers. Reboot.
3) Boot into Bootcamp w/ safe mode and run DDU 3x. Reboot
4) Install January 2020 "Blue" drivers from bootcampdrives.com. DO NOT REBOOT.
5) Install the August 2020 "Red" drivers from within Device Manager. DO NOT REBOOT.
6) Run the August 2020 "Red" installer, making sure that the Factory Install/Reset is NOT selected.
Then you should be ready to go. These August drivers seem to have much fewer problems switching resolutions, resulting in fewer "black screens of death." I've still seen some odd glitches (Fallout 4 UI not restoring properly after option-tabbing to the desktop, for example.) so there may still be a few issues.